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Sunday, July 31, 2016

The black roots of African slavery.

Ask yourself this: In all of the gazillions of lectures and tirades (there have, as to date, been no genuine conversations) on slavery, have you ever heard of the names of John Currantee and Ephraim Robin John?

Such names—and there are many, many more—belong to a racially
incorrect history of slavery, an historical account that threatens to
rip asunder the ideological foundations of the Racism-Industrial-Complex
(RIC), or Big Racism.

For centuries and centuries, courtesy
of both Arabs and its indigenous peoples, slavery was endemic throughout
the continent of Africa. Contrary to what contemporary mythical
portraits like Roots would have us think, when Europeans began enslaving Africans in the 16th century, they—unlike Arabs—would not invade villages to obtain slaves. Rather, they would have to trade with the African flesh peddlers.

Yet the enslavers exerted as well considerable power over their European partners,
for in addition to getting the price that they wanted for the product
that they were peddling, these black merchants of black bodies would
also compel Europeans to pay “gifts” or “customs fees” (“dashee”).

In The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Rebecca
Shumway writes that “in the very territory where the majority of
fortified European castles were built, giving the appearance of European
control, the Africans residing under those structures were actually
exercising greater control over trade than was typical for coastal West
Africa in this period.” The Fante, as one reviewer aptly put it, “maintain[ed] the upper hand in their dealings with Europeans.”

As an indication of just how wide of the mark is the popular notion
that whites “stole” Africans from their homes, it is worth noting that
the British government, in order to strengthen their trading
partnerships with Africans, even invited the sons
of African slave traders to come to England so as to study English!
Moreover, friendships developed between some European and African
dealers.

The enslavement of Africans by Europeans was made
possible by the fact that Africans first enslaved—and then sold—Africans
to these Europeans. Nor is it the case, as Big Racism would like for
us to believe, that Europeans were uniquely cruel to their captives. In
point of fact, African slave traders not infrequently subjected those
who they kidnapped to treatment that had few peers anywhere as far as
mercilessness and savagery are concerned.

Dr. Alexander Falconbridge
was a European who served as a surgeon aboard multiple slave ships that
sailed from West Africa to the Caribbean during the last quarter of the
18th century. He would eventually become an abolitionist.
In 1788, he supplied the world with an all too rare account of the
African participation in the slave trade.

Since “the black traders” take “extreme care” “to prevent the
Europeans from gaining any intelligence” regarding the logistics
involved in capturing slaves, Falconbridge drew his impressions—namely,
that many, if not most, of the latter were abducted—from what he did observe directly as well as from the testimony of those Africans who had been captured.

One black captive, a man, told Falconbridge that he had been invited
to drink with traders. As he proceeded to walk away, they seized him.
He broke free, but only to be hunted down by a “large dog” that
“compelled him to submit.” Dogs were used with regularity by African
slave catchers. As the man struggled in vain against the animal, his
abductors, “being trained to the inhuman sport,” appeared to delight in
his suffering.

A pregnant woman explained that she was
returning home one evening from visiting with neighbors when traders
seized upon her. Since those Africans involved in slave trading
increasingly traveled further and further into the interior to find
human beings, this woman, like so many others, “had passed through the
hands of several purchasers before she reached the ship.”

Falconbridge tells of a father and his son who, while tending to crops,
were attacked, captured, and dragged off to be sold. Another
unsuspecting black man was invited by his companion to behold the
gigantic European ships that were parked along the coast. Intrigued, he
accepted the invitation. Yet before he could realize that he had been
manipulated, the soon-to-be slave was ambushed and taken on board the
vessel. It would be a mistake to think that the Africans
didn’t have a sophisticated operation. Falconbridge reports that
traders would sail “up country” to “the fairs” in 20-30 canoes “capable
of containing thirty or forty Negroes each” to purchase slaves. The
canoes would be packed with “such goods” as were necessary for this
purpose. As the traders embarked, Falconbridge could see “colors
flying” and “music playing;” it was a festive affair.

When the canoes return with their cargo, “the purchased Negroes are cleaned, and oiled with palm-oil [.]” Then they are shown to the Europeans.

If, however, for whatever reasons, the captains passed on what the
Africans were trying to sell, the latter would “beat those Negroes…and
use them with great severity.” In a passage that is particularly
revealing of the inhumanity of the treatment to which Africans would
subject their own, Falconbridge writes: “It matters not whether they
[the African slaves] are refused on account of age, illness, deformity,
or for any other reason.” Off the coast of New Calabar, what is today
known as Nigeria, “the traders, when any of their Negroes have been
objected to, have dropped their canoes under the stern of the vessel,
and instantly be headed them, in sight of the captain” (italics added).

Don’t expect to hear about this in that “honest conversation” of race that the left assures us we need to have.

Jack KerwickSource: http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263659/racially-incorrect-facts-slavery-african-slave-jack-kerwick Follow Middle East and Terrorism on TwitterCopyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.